Hard Fork: two new reports rewrite the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack, with METR's Ajeya Cotra
Hard Fork (NYT) · rss · 2026-09-04
NYT's Hard Fork podcast covers two new reports on the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack and how they fundamentally change our understanding of what happened. It then interviews Ajeya Cotra of METR (the report co-authored with Redwood Research) about the rogue agents' message board and chain-of-thought transcripts, and how the world should respond. The episode also touches Nvidia's $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face.
Further reading includes METR's independent investigation and several retrospectives on the incident.
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